Nevada 74, Fresno State 61
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Deonte Burton had 18 points and Malik Story 17 as Nevada overcame an 11-point first-half deficit to beat Fresno State 74-61 Saturday night.
Dario Hunt added 13 points and 11 rebounds for the Wolf Pack (16-3, 5-0 Western Athletic), who won their 13th consecutive game.
Tyler Johnson had 17 points for the Bulldogs (9-12, 1-4). Jerry Brown added 14 points and Kevin Olekaibe 13.
Nevada trailed 39-38 with 13:37 left in the game before going on a 25-9 run over the next nine minutes. Hunt's put-back of a missed free throw by Story put the Wolf Pack ahead 63-48 with 4:28 left.
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Idaho 57, Utah State 54
MOSCOW, Idaho –(UI Media Relations) University of Idaho men’s basketball trailed for nearly the entire game, but the Vandals took the lead when it counted on a late 3-pointer by sophomore Stephen Madison to claim a 57-54 home win over Utah State on Saturday at the Cowan Spectrum.
“It was a schoolyard brawl tonight,” Idaho head coach Don Verlin said after the game. “We knew what they were doing, they knew what we were doing. There was a lot of strategy going on and we were just fortunate to win.”
Madison stubbed his toe in the first half and had been 2-of-9 from the field and 0-for-3 from long range, but when junior Kyle Barone found him alone in the corner with 26 seconds left and the Vandals trailing by one, Madison calmly stepped up and drained the triple to give the Vandals their first lead since 12-11 at the 13:52 mark of the first half.
“I jammed it pretty good and got it wrapped up at half time, so it was bothering me and the shot wasn’t there, but the coaches had confidence,” Madison said. “The last one, I just caught it and shot it like normal.”
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Hawai‘i 91, New Mexico State 87
HONOLULU -(AP) Zane Johnson scored 18 of his season-high 29 points in the first half as Hawaii defeated New Mexico State 91-87 on Saturday night.
Johnson, a senior, shot 7 of 13 from 3-point range and was 10 of 17 from the field to help the Rainbow Warriors (11-8, 3-2 WAC) snap a two-game losing streak.
Bandja Sy had 17 points and Hamidu Rahman 16 to lead the Aggies (14-6, 4-1), who had won their last six and nine of their previous 10 games.
Hawaii led 71-52 after Hauns Brereton's layup midway through the second half. However, New Mexico State made a late charge and pulled within four points several times in the final minute, but got no closer.
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Louisiana Tech 71, San Jose State 67
SAN JOSE, Calif. –(LTU Media Relations) Junior guard Brandon Gibson and freshman guard Raheem Appleby scored 19 points each as Louisiana Tech defeated San Jose State 71-67 at The Event Center Saturday night. The win gave Tech consecutive wins on the road in the Western Athletic Conference for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
With the victory, the Bulldogs improve to 10-10 on the year and 2-3 in the WAC while San Jose State drops to 6-13 and 0-5 in conference.
Tech started off slow as they fell behind 11-4 five and a half minutes into the game on a three-pointer from the Spartans’ D.J. Brown. Gibson made a three-point basket of his own on the next Bulldog possession to cut the deficit to four.
SJSU scored the next six points to push Tech’s deficit to 10 halfway through the period.
A layup from James Kinney gave the Spartans their largest advantage of the game 26-15 with 4:27 left in the half.
The Bulldogs outscored SJSU 16-7 the rest of the period to cut the deficit to 33-31 at halftime.
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